The season continues to blossom, a good two weeks early, at least. The farmers took the first cut of hay back in mid-June, and the hayfields are now sprinkled with big round hay bales. Looks like a good crop this year. For some reason the bales, deposited at irregular intervals across the fields, heighten my […]
On the way to the dump the other day we saw three bear cubs crossing the road only a little way ahead of us. They were all about the same size so some mama bear must have had triplets! We didn’t see her, but she must have been nearby … it only took a second […]
It’s been very busy! And the season remains advanced, at least two weeks ahead of normal. We actually have blueberries – tiny white ones, not ripe yet – and the sugar plums are getting a lot of attention from a couple of cedar waxwings, and the chipmunks. Although the “big” sugar plum tree is really […]
Busy, busy. The green wall is up – leaves so thick we can’t see our nearest neighbour (only about half a block away by city standards). The leaves are so full and dense, and yet infinitely varied – they remind me of some southeast asian art I’ve seen, with millions of tiny green leaves, filling […]
Hot and humid yesterday, and a big thunderstorm last night, with hail and lots of rain. This morning there’s still water running off the rock face on both sides of the house, pools and puddles everywhere, and my little vegetable garden has several eroded water paths, almost like little stream beds, an inch or so […]
May 21: Woke up this morning to see snow! And not just a little – we got a good (or bad) half inch before it turned into ordinary drizzle. Two hours later, it’s almost gone. Of course, I had left my seedlings (pumpkin, squash and cucumbers) and pansies on the porch – I’ve been hardening […]
 MAY 18: The wild violets have been blossoming for a few days now, tiny, white or purple-blue. There’s one growing out of a crack in the rock face by the woodshed! There are buds on the lilac bush in back of the house … Lilacs do well here, and often you can see a […]
Spring is the best time to begin things, and so I’ve begun this journal, documenting some at least of the next stage of my adventure. The first entry is a composite of the first couple of weeks of May 2006. MAY 11: I’ve had exquisite weather following my big day, when I finally reached that […]